Breaker on but no power to outlet FIX

Breaker ok but electrical outlets not working. I am going to show you how to fix or diagnose a partial power outage in the house.
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[barbarawhittall]

Excellent video you explained very well much thanks!!

[calps]

Thank you sir! I got a 50 year old house. My garage door and my two bathrooms upstairs were without power. The breaker seemed to be ok, it did not jump. But I replaced it anyway just to get that out of the way. Still no power.
I watched your video and to make the story short, I found a faulty outlet in my Down stairs bathroom ( which had the lights working and was not connected to that breaker).
When I opened to outlet it was very rusty, probably from the sink’s humidity. Your video told me to check the outlets, the trick was to find out which outlet was feeding which.
I replaced the bad outlet and bingo!
I would have never thought that an outlet could control my entire garage and my two full bathrooms upstairs!
Thanks again! You saved me a bunch of money from calling a professional.

[tms]

As an electrician, I recommend not using those push-in connectors on the backs of receptacles, especially for 20 amp circuits with heavy appliance usage. Wrapping the wires on the screws is the best connection and less likely to fail over time.

[JJLearnsStuff]

Wow, this is one of the best videos I’ve seen that explains real world wiring of older homes, and a way of someone figuring out how to fix it. Very well explained.

[jonmess]

The gift that keeps on giving. Was just about to call an electrician when I found your video. Your straight forward down to earth explanation saved me $300+

[daveshangar]

Thank you for posting.
I had a problem this morning. My wife said that she got some kind of a minor shock, and then everything stopped working at that AC outlet. There's an AC outlet on the r about 2 ft away from the kitchen sink. I turned breakers off and on and pulled out my multi tester to check that circuit and other AC outlets, and I started to think that it was the AC outlet itself. But when I went to check the wires, there was no power there either.

From my lack of experience, had I not seen the video you posted I would have forgotten all about the AC outlet that is hidden in the spice cabinet, which is also about 2 ft away from the sink. Unlike the one on the right, it has a breaker to satisfy the code laws.

I went to examine that breaker more closely and found that it did, in fact, trip.
I pushed the red button and wala, the other outlet came alive.

You learn something new every day and thank God for YouTube.

[KevinCoop]

Joe, The reason that the dining room receptacle went first is because it is the first device on the circuit and caries all of the load from all those 4 receptacles. So, it builds up the most heat. I would strongly suggest that you get another circuit run and receptacle for the microwave. It is suggested by the microwave manufacturers that you have a dedicated circuit for it. Best wishes, Kevin

[DickWigglin]

As soon as I heard the accent, I knew he knew what he was talking about.

[matthewhuszarik]

This is one of the best electrical trouble shooting videos I have seen. Most of them just tell you to do the basics everyone already knows. Resetting and cycling the breakers. I have a similar problem this gives me another avenue to test for. Thank you.

[nickiculbertson]

Thank you Joe!! You are my hero! For three days we have tried and tried to figure out why half our kitchen didn't work. Believe it or not our set up was just like yours. An outlet on the other side of the wall. It was inside the outlet.. mostly used by a small space heater. Your video solved our problem.. so thanks! Oh and GUYS, it is still manly if you watch YouTube in order to find solutions!!! It would not have taken 3 days if I could have persuaded a certain guy into watching YouTube videos for a solution.. really..

[thomasblake]

This is why I always use pigtails now instead of running down stream outlets off other receptacles. This stuff used to drive me nuts. No issues anymore. Great troubleshooting. All you can do really is to check everything like you did.

[Taskun]

Thank you very much for showing this!

I've been rewiring the outlets in my house and when I started swapping recepticles I noticed some of them were so old and burned out they weren't passing their LOAD.
I suppose I'm going to have to follow every line back to solve this one, like you've shown here.

Great explanation and very relatable for troubleshooting tips. You're a legend!

[PK.]

You might not be an electrician but you sure know how to explain things.

This helped me out a bunch!

Good yea 👍

[konakona]

You are awesome! Spent 2 hours and a trip to Lowes to buy a new circuit breaker before I saw your video. Saved me a visit by the electrician. Thanks for posting this!

[YesImThatRocco]

I just had this same exact issue occur this week at my gf’s condo and was feeling pretty well stumped but once I watched your video I was convinced this was indeed her issue too, so I just skipped all the trouble shooting / tracing you did and jumped right to changing out all the outlets connected to the “problem” breaker starting at the one that seemed closest to where the issue began and turned the breaker on/off after swapping out each individual outlet until the “problem outlet” revealed itself by way of the lights coming back on to all the other outlets.

Only had to swap out 2 outlets before the problem outlet revealed itself & the problem was solved, which made me look like a genius / hero to my gf :)

You’re analysis was spot on and I should also note that the “problem” outlet that I found was actually a newer outlet that was installed maybe 3 years ago tops, while some other outlets in her condo (on that same breaker (and are the ones I suspected were the cause) are over 35 years old, as they’re the originals from when the place was built in the mid 80’s.

I loved this video because it comes off as if your uncle or grandfather just randomly texted you a video of a problem he had at his home and is proudly showing you how he slowly and methodically resolved it, step by step.

Thank you for posting this video!
I never, ever comment on youtube but this video just saved me a ton of time & frustration and you deserve the kudos!
✌🏼

[salpaparo]

Joe, thanks so much for taking the time to make and post this video. I had tried everything, with the help of YTube videos and was ready to give up and call an electrician. And then I saw this video and fixed the problem. I had a faulty outlet.

[shannonchavez-perteet]

Just wanted to say thank you for this video! Absolutely saved us a lot of time troubleshooting and/or money hiring an electrician. Our issue was exactly the same. Thank you so much!

[PunkSister]

Thanks internet dad! It’s my first home and you just saved me a lot of time and money.

[melvinmcgregor]

Very thorough explanation in diagnosing the cause of the problem. Whenever there’s 2 sets of wires (4 wires total - excluding the the grounds) coming in to a box, it’s preferable to pigtail them together, thus preventing other receptacles downstream from tripping or malfunctioning. Another suggestion is to install a GFCI in the your dinning room that will also protect your downstream outlets in your kitchen.
Pigtails: I do acknowledge this is not always possible in older homes where smaller metal electrical boxes was the norm back in the day, because there isn’t enough space in these older boxes to accommodate wire nuts or wago’s. Again, very good video and thank you for sharing.

[dustinreed]

Thank you for your video and I appreciate how you took the time to explain what the issue was and described your troubleshooting process. I literally had the exact same issue and after hours of grinding thru videos without success I found your video.